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Charikleia
Say it: khah-REE-klee-ah
Meaning
Greek charis 'grace' and kleos 'glory, fame'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used in 19th- and early 20th-century Greece and rare today.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Chara
| Latin | Chariclea |
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Famous bearers
- Charikleia, heroine of Heliodorus's novel Aethiopica
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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